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Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.fyi.net!schendel From: schendel@fyi.net (Karl Schendel) Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: zel4.fyi.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-ID: <schendel-ya023080002711960508060001@news.fyi.net> Sender: news@fyi.net (News User) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: FYI Networks X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.0 References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329ae8f2@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57fipg$q7j@panix2.panix.com> <schendel-ya023080002611961906140001@news.fyi.net> <57gbls$25s@cynic.portal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Distribution: inet Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:08:06 GMT Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:90588 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1604 comp.unix.internals:11340 In article <57gbls$25s@cynic.portal.ca>, cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote: > In article <schendel-ya023080002611961906140001@news.fyi.net>, > Karl Schendel <schendel@fyi.net> wrote: > > >Let me tell you in no uncertain terms that if OUR > >dbms vendor (Ingres) told us that we had to get a new release of Ingres > >to match a Solaris minor version update, we'd tell BOTH vendors to go > >straight to hell. > >... > >For me, inconvenience means dollars pissed down the drain. > > So it's more inconvenient to get a new version of Ingres than it is to > move your entire application off of Sun and Ingres entirely? Once, no. If I thought it was an indication of permanent braindamage, yes. Remember I'm not the end user. I would have to arrange for a new version of Ingres (and probably of our application) N times, N = # of our Sun customers. And schedule and coordinate the whole mess. Karl